Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Mecca pact will strengthen security, stability

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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(From L) TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chat after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 7.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) welcomes Lebanese President Aoun at the presidential palace in Ankara, July 30.

Voices from the Arab press: A new pathway for Lebanon

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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SATELLITE VIEW shows vehicles at an entrance to Pickaxe Mountain tunnels, near Natanz nuclear facility, in Iran, June 21.

Voices from the Arab press: The Red Sea, redrawing the war map

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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Military equipment targeted at an unknown location, during what US CENTCOM says are strikes on Iran, in this video screengrab released July 20.

Voices from the Arab press: Iranian calamities, Netanyahu's rule, and state legitimacy

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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Voices from the Arab press: Trump’s Gaza plan remains a fantasy

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

FEBRUARY 21, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
(L-R) US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a backdrop of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

Voices from the Arab press: Trumpism's Risks and opportunities

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

FEBRUARY 15, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, 2017.

Voices from the Arab press: Is there another way with Israel?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

FEBRUARY 8, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
IDF troops operate in the West Bank. February 6, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump’s opportunity to determine the Middle East’s future

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

JANUARY 25, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
TRUMP’S ‘AMERICA First’ agenda could significantly sway global geopolitics.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump and Musk, the arsonists

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

JANUARY 19, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
BILLIONAIRE ELON MUSK joins Donald Trump on stage during a campaign rally at the site of Trump’s first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Oct. 5, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Elon Musk mark a victory in politics?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

JANUARY 11, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
Donald Trump (L) and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, November 19, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: The German attack – despite Saudi Arabia’s warnings

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

JANUARY 6, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visit the site where a car drove into a crowd of a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Syria after Assad: Four urgent challenges

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

DECEMBER 20, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
A TORN portrait of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad inside the ransacked Presidential Palace in Damascus, December 10, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump should pressure Israel, not Hamas

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

DECEMBER 16, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, during his first term as US president, arrive to deliver joint remarks on the ‘Deal of the Century’ proposal, at the White House in 2020.

Voices of the Arab press: Russian-Western escalation: Dangerous game, unpredictable results

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

DECEMBER 7, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
DAMAGED STATUE of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in the Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region, seen in August 2024.